Actual XSI question 2004-08-20 - By Marque Pierre S?ndergaard
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In 3ds Max there is a plugin which can quickly generate a lot of detailed
geometry to make a sci-fi hitech surface look plausible. Think the kind of
stuff (boxes, ridges and so on) you find on the surface of the Death Star in
Star Wars. I need to do something similar in XSI, and since I don't know of
any such plugins or functionalities in XSI, I was thinking of generating a
displacement map in Photoshop or perhaps something procedural. Or is there a
more clever way around that in XSI?
Thanks
Marque
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>Subject: Re: Poser/Truespace vs XSI
>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:32:19 +1000
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>Could someone please ask a creative/technical question that could be
>answered? The signal to noise ratio here is getting pretty low, which is a
>bit disapointing.
>
>One interesting question that was asked is what is the difference between a
>consumer, pro-sumer and professional application. This is I believe the
>question that was asked when comparing Poser and Truespace and XSI. The
>correct answer is usually not the feature themselves. but more the stated
>goals of the users and developers of a products.
>
>Let's ignore 3D for a second, and focus on a more specialized field, like
>video editing. There are a large number of software packages out there,
>that are all capable of taking video from a source, and combining said
>video into an edit. So what is the difference between something like
>Microsoft MovieMaker, Apple's iMovie, and professional products like Final
>Cut Pro, and Avid|Composer?
>
>On the surface it's not really the features, because they all have similar
>interface, can do cuts, fades, playback in realtime, and in general get you
>from point A to point B. The difference between the prosumer and
>professional market is the breath of the implementation of these features,
>and the acknowledgement that in a professional environment, it's not simply
>getting there that counts, but being able to repeat that performance
>reliably, and adapt the process as you creatively decide that you weren't
>really trying to get from A to B but from A' to B' then A'' to B'' and be
>able to control the creative evolution so that you don't lose track of were
>you where before, and don't have to treat each creative iteration as a
>completely new project that has to be redone from scratch.
>
>You can actually edit a creatively and technically succesful project using
>iMovie. However, only something like the Avid or FCP will allow you to
>sustain the creative iterations required by a professional Editor, a
>Director, a team of Producers, Art Directors and countless other
>"contributors" to the project, without dying young.
>
>This is the main difference, professional production is a team sport, and
>application written for that market, are written to take these situation
>into account. This is why XSI is considered a professional 3D application,
>and something like Poser or Truespace isn't. For a single person working
>alone on a project, they will both work reasonably well (you might even say
>that because the consumer apps don't even attempt to solve the complex
>problems, they are easier to use and better suited for the tasks at end),
>but for larger production processes, the professional tools are used,
>because they are suited for these jobs.
>
>You are right in saying that within the limited scope of quickly animating
>a biped, poser is probaly better suited to the task than XSI is. however,
>if you need to animate a particular biped that was constructed a certain
>may because of the creative and technical requirement of your project, you
>will find that with Poser, you need to fit those requirements to the
>application. with XSI, you build the XSI rigs and animation system to fit
>your needs, and not the other way around. So out-of the box, Poser might be
>a better system for you, but I can tell you that we would never be able to
>animate our projects with it.
>
>OO
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